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Archimedes
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1.Born in Syracuse, Sicily
2.His father, Phidias, was an astronomer -
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Aristotle
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1.Born in Stagira, Chalcide
2.Aristotle was sent to Athens by his father when he was 17 years old to pursue a higher education -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
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1.Born in Anchiano, Tuscany
2.He was the first person to explain why the sky is blue -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
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1.Born in Pisa, Italy
2.The middle finger of his right hand is displayed in a museum in Italy -
Isaac Newton
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1.Born in Woolsthorpe, England
2.Isaac Newton's father was named Isaac Newton as well -
Maria Sibylla Merian
1.Born in Frankfurt, Germany
2.Her father died when she was just three years old, her uncle then took care of her -
Charles Darwin
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1.Born in The Mount, Shrewsbury
2.He married his first cousin Emma Darwin -
Thomas Edison
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1.Born in Milan, Ohio
2.He had scarlet fever as a child -
Nikola Tesla
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1.Born in Smiljan (now Croatia)
2.He had a photographic memory -
Marie Curie
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1.Born in Warsaw, Poland
2.She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win two -
Maria Goeppert Mayer
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1.Born in Kattowitz (now Katowice), Germany (now Poland)
2.The Crater Goeppart Mayer on Venus is names after her -
Gertrude Elion
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1.Born in New York City, New York
2.She received many awards including the Garvan-Olin Medal (received in 1968), the National Medal of Science (1991) and Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award (1997) -
Stephen hawking
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1.He has received many awards none of which are a Nobel Prize
2.One of his main achievements was coming up with the theory that the universe has no boundaries
